Members of Academia Europaea awarded 2022 Nobel Prizes
Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger have been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Svante Pääbo, a member of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology section of the Academy since 1998, has received the prize “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. Professor Pääbo is Director of the Department of Evolutionary Geneticsat the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. His seminal contributions to paleogenetics have enabled reconstruction of the recent evolutionary history of the human species and allowed identification of genetic traits that make us uniquely human.
Alain Aspect, a member of the Physics and Engineering Sciences section of the Academy since 2009, and Anton Zeilinger, a member of the Informatics section since 2011 have (jointly with John Clauser) won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. With their innovative experiments on entangled particles, they paved the way towards new and potentially revolutionary technologies based on the quantum properties of entanglement.
Alain Aspect is Professor at the Université Paris-Saclay and École Polytechnique, Palaiseau. Anton Zeilinger is Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Vienna, Austria, and former President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.